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Jun.11.2009
Words play with each other within the confines of a sentence. They are sentenced to sit between a capital and a stop of some kind. Some sentences are long and luxurious with plenty of space for the words to play freely, sometimes even changing places or even dropping out for a quick refreshing dip...
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Jun.08.2009
My short play, “Though They May be Parted,” will be featured in Summer Shorts, Friday and Saturday, June 19 and 20 at 8PM, at Broadway West Theatre, 4000-B Bay Street, Fremont.
“Though They May Be Parted” is a dark comedy about three grown siblings who clash at a funeral home during a viewing of...
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Mar.24.2009
We must love language, or we wouldn't be on this site! Well, let me share another site I just disovered, where playing with words can help feed the hungry on this planet www.freerice.com
It's a simple but great idea. You get to play with words - eg test your dictionary knowledge; I quickly...
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Mar.13.2009
Kafka Comes To Bethlehem
PNN / Osama Awad - This play is an adaptation of Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis", as Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
He struggles to keep his relationship with his...
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Mar.11.2009
First, thank you Red Room for putting my book on the homepage this week. Thank you to the readers who have leapt in and bought a copy of The Brightest Moon of the Century. Amazon has now reduced the price 32%. For the direct link to the book, click here. The reading on Saturday at Vroman's...
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Feb.28.2009
Last night I saw Will Manus's play Blues for Central Avenue, which celebrates Los Angeles's famous Central Avenue after World War II, at Write Act Repertory Theater, 6128 Yucca Ave, Hollywood. During the 1930s and early 1940s Los Angeles was a Jim Crow town, with severe housing segration written...
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Nov.15.2008
I find the plethora of Kafka interpretations and books is a positive thing , since I have a novel manuscript about him hunting for a publisher. But I am given pause by the format of some of those interpretations.
By the way, I'd love to see this. And I'd like to be sitting beside Kafka. We'd be...
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Oct.31.2008
The producers of my play, Murder at the Pelican Club which is to be premiered in Liverpool on 26 November are looking for a Liverpool based Film Maker to make a Murder at the Pelican Club trailer, credited and looped all day in a venue in Liverpool. It will also be shown on You Tube, and excerpts...
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Sep.27.2008
So I am ALWAYS the villain to my son's episodes of superhero play. He gets to be Superman. I have to be Mr. Freeze. It's not fair. I know. But I do it. And as I've been doing it, I am really feeling my character. He's vengeful, outraged, self-righteous. Yeah. That's right. He's been...
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Jul.02.2008
The Fourth of July is almost here, and since I’m still in thrashing around revising my chapter, and since I’ve described myself as a playwright as well as a soap opera critic, I thought I’d post my one-act, Settling In. To access it, click here.
I had never thought about any connection between my...
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